Category Archives: SMS Applications

DOer Lyle Pratt Launches BuildANumber alongside BetterVoicemail

Lyle Pratt is a DOer by nature, with a business-focused education on paper, he’s been writing software for years. After missing API Hack Day because of the flu, Lyle reached out to share with us the app he built anyways … Continue reading →

Posted by Ladan Mahini on May 15, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Retail SMS In-Stock Reminders with Twilio

DOer Timmy Crawford is the developer behind Cone Patrol, the Twilio-powered app serving up your powder alerts for northwest during the snow season. He is also the Lead Web Developer at The Longboard Store. Timmy recently implemented SMS reminders to … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on May 9, 2012 Tagged , ,

CakePHP and Twilio: Receiving and Replying to SMS

This post by developer Bruno Nadeau  was originally posted on the Wyld Collective blog here and is related to a project exploring communication that drives public displays of commentary called Cityspeak. Bruno is an interactive designer and software developer at … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 30, 2012 Tagged ,

Developer Contest Winner: SMS and Tracking with Salesforce

Alongside the Cloudstock event, we hosted a developer contest with a focus on getting business done with Salesforce. A stellar mix of entries from developers getting inspired through CRM tools, some who hacked on-site with us during Cloudstock. One productive … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 26, 2012 Tagged , ,

Connecting all with VoIP Drupal and Twilio

This post comes to us via Leo Burd, PhD. Leo serves as a researcher for MIT’s Center for Civic Media where he is working to solve issues around digital divide, social engagement, and civic empowerment. To reach that goal, he began exploring and building … Continue reading →

Posted by Keith Casey on April 23, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

Get Started with Twilio SMS: Receiving Incoming Text Messages Screencast

The Twilio Quickstart Tutorials are a great place to get started and learn the basics of our cloud communication platform, but I have always found it helpful to not only be able to read about the tools I’m using but … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on April 20, 2012 Tagged , ,

A Picture Caption Game with Twilio and PubNub

Developer and DOer Alex Swan built this picture caption game using Twilio SMS and PubNub. He put together this awesome screencast that shows off the game in action and then dives into the code behind it. For this game, see … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 19, 2012 Tagged

Build a Simple Phone Verification with Twilio, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery

About a year ago we wrote about phone verification as a preventative to spam or fraud, and a simple way to keep your users safe. Twilio customers continue to use two-factor authentication for the benefit of their customers. Read more about … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on April 17, 2012 Tagged ,

Rotobooth: The Rotary Phone and Arduino-Powered Photobooth

Photobooths are cool, but what’s really cool is powering that photobooth with a rotary phone and an arduino, with a Twilio hack. And it looks pretty hip too. Rotobooth took third place out of over 50 hacks at PhotoHack Day … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 12, 2012 Tagged , , , ,